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This is ridiculous. Now he is crying to the league about it. The thing that amazes me is that week after week we see players and coaches crying about this and that, and its Brady, Belichick and the Pats who are the so called "cry babies". Look at week 1 vs. the Bills and the 2 extremely questionable roughing the passer calls made against Wilfork and Thomas. Did they cry about it. Did they compain to the refs. No. They dealt with it, sucked it up and won the game. And I am quite sure if one was to go over the tapes of the Bills and Jets game they would find a few questionable non roughing the passer calls against Brady, with the beating he took.

FOXBOROUGH - Baltimore coach John Harbaugh said yesterday he planned to submit film to the NFL office in New York of what he believes were questionable calls in the Ravensâ€™ 27-21 loss to the Patriots Sunday at Gillette Stadium.

The Ravens were penalized twice for roughing the passer, each one helping set up a New England touchdown in the first half. The first went against lineman Haloti Ngata (for contact to the head), and the second went against linebacker Terrell Suggs (for contact to the knees).

The Patriots were credited with 10 quarterback hits and a pair of sacks, both by Mike Wright, who was penalized 15 yards for unnecessary roughness for a helmet-to-helmet blow on Flacco. Harbaugh said Flacco â€œgot hit [six] different times hard, and there was one call.â€™â€™

â€œTom didnâ€™t get hit five times,â€™â€™ said Harbaugh. â€œWe want him to be hit more than he was hit, but when he did sort of get hit, it was called. That goes to the credibility of the whole thing.â€™â€™

The officiating crew, led by referee Ron Winter, called 14 penalties for 126 yards. The Ravens had nine penalties for 85 yards, including a 15-yard unsportsmanlike penalty against Harbaugh with 13:33 left in the third quarter. The Patriots were called for five penalties for 41 yards.

Patriots coach Bill Belichick acknowledged yesterday he had apprised his team that the officials working Sunday had a reputation for calling a tight game.

â€œI think the writingâ€™s on the wall there, that they call them pretty tight,â€™â€™ Belichick said. â€œMaybe every game they happen to have there are just more penalties, I donâ€™t know. To basically be the top penalty-calling crew over the last three years tells me the game is going to be [called] tight. So yeah, I did mention that to the team and they did call it tight.â€™â€™

Linebacker Ray Lewis didnâ€™t hold back after the loss. â€œItâ€™s embarrassing to the game,â€™â€™ he said. â€œDid that win or lose the game? No, but it got them 14 points. A personal foul and he isnâ€™t even touched. Heâ€™s a man. They can be hit, just like us. We stop them and then you look back and see a flag or a personal foul and Tom Brady is laughing. It wasnâ€™t no personal foul if heâ€™s still smiling.â€™â€™

You do realize that every team just about every week sends video of plays that they felt were either bad calls or bad non-calls to the league. They simply ask for an explanation. This is common throughout the league.

BB himself has addressed it several times, as have many other coaches during press conferences.

Did anyone else think that Aiken made that catch in the first quarter? He had control of the ball, took two steps and the ball only came out once he was down. It was called incomplete. I think if it was challenged that it would have been reversed. A few plays later, a Ravens receiver slides out of bounds with the ball juggling on his stomach. He did not have control as he slid out of bounds. Should have been called incomplete but was called complete. If Harbaugh is going to send tapes to the league, he shouldn't cherry pick which ones he sends. there are a lot of plays that were bad.

The thing that worries me is that all this complaining is going to put Brady in harms way. After Polian complained to the league about the Patriots DBs getting too physical, they started calling more penalties on the Patriots for inteference, alot of them very ticky-tack. Now, I'm worried that the officials will let some of the hits on Brady go to prove that they aren't protecting Brady.